Solar Wind's origin remains shrouded in mystery. He was a member of the Shi'ar,
Imperial Guard. At some point he along with his teammates
Moondancer and
Voyager became captives of the enigmatic
Stranger on his mysterious Laboratory World. Solar Wind and his teammates were able to free themselves from the Stranger's Laboratory World when the being known as
Overmind, a warrior who possessed the collective psionic power of the billion brains and who carried in his memory the subliminal command to subdue the universe, arrived on the Laboratory World of the Stranger. Solar Wind and the Imperial Guard would later participate in the cosmic event known as Operation: Galactic Storm.